luchtschip schreef op 14 april 2020 02:27:
Coronavirus: China offers breaks for export of banned wild animals
Chinese authorities have shut down domestic wild animal traders on fears their goods sparked the coronavirus pandemic. Now officials are offering tax incentives to the multi-billion-dollar animal-products industry to ship some of the creatures overseas, according to Chinese government documents.
China’s National People’s Congress on February 24 imposed a ban on the sale and consumption of wild animals in the country. “The prominent problem of recklessly eating wild animals and its potential risk to public health have aroused wide public concern,” a spokesman told state media.
Less than a month later, China’s Finance Ministry and tax authority said on March 17 they would raise value-added tax rebates on nearly 1500 Chinese products, including offering a 9 per cent rebate on the export of animal products such as edible snakes and turtles, primate meat, beaver and civet musk, and rhino horns, a government document shows.
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